Noemi's skull crushed (2)

Face unrecognizable, cause of death not yet established

(ANSA) - Specchia, September 14 - It has not yet been
possible to establish how Noemi Durini was killed due to the
state of her corpse, investigative sources said on Thursday.
The 16-year-old's boyfriend has confessed to the homicide,
saying he stabbed her to death in a case that has shocked the
nation.
Her skull was crushed by a rock, her face was unrecognizable,
her body had many injuries, probably inflicted by wild animals,
and it was in state of decomposition.
Therefore, it has not been possible to determine whether stab
wounds were present.
It will be necessary to wait for the outcome of an autopsy in
the next few days to be sure of the cause of death.
There had been reports that the girl had been killed by one
or more blows to the head with a rock.
Her body was found in countryside in the area of Castignano
del Capo, near the southern city of Lecce, partially covered by
rocks.
The boy told investigators that he killed the girl "because
she was pushing for all of my family to be killed," sources
said.
He said a knife that Noemi had with her was the murder
weapon.
He also said that he had intended to flee to Milan.
Police struggled to save the boy from a lynching when he left
a station at the southern town of Specchia overnight following
questioning.
The crowd began especially angry when he lifted his hand as
if to wave at them.
Justice Minister Andrea Orlando and the Italian judiciary's
self-governing body, the CSM, have opened procedures into the
fact that a 17-year-old had been reported to prosecutors for
minors in Lecce over his violent conduct, sources said Thursday.
The report was filed by the mother of Noemi's mother, Imma
Rizzo.